This anthology brings together essays written during the past several decades by a pioneering Muslim scholar of interreligious engagement. Topics include Islamic warrants for confrontation and accommodation, supersessionism, martyrdom, redemption, christology, and more.

Hussain teaches in the Department of Theology at Loyola Marymount University. Writing as a Muslim with deep personal experience with and respect for Christianity, he lays out the basics of Islam in conversational style, with special attention to questions Christians raise.

This comparison of the Qur’anic to the Biblical account of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Mary, and Jesus makes for an excellent introduction for Christians to Christian-Muslim dialogue.

A digest of the first Building Bridges Seminar (London, January 2002), inaugurated by then-Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey.  Includes papers and discussion summaries on five themes regarding the themes and challenges of dialogue.  The first of a series, subsequent volumes have demonstrated strategies for studying Qur’an and Bible together.

Ipgrave, Michael. Scriptures in Dialogue: Christians and Muslim Studying the Bible and the Qur’an Together; and Bearing the Word: Prophecy in Biblical and Qur’anic Perspective. London: Church House Publishing, 2004 & 2005, respectively.

A digest of the second and third Building Bridges Seminars (Qatar, Spring 2003; Georgetown, Spring 2004), during which pairs of Bible and Qur’an texts were discussed in small groups (two pairs of texts for each day). Included are some of the papers, discussion summaries, reflections on the place of scripture in their own lives, and lectures on interfaith relations by the present Archbishop of Canterbury.

An anthology of 300 sayings attributed to, or stories about, Jesus from Arabic literature, 700s-1700s CE., with notes.

An easily read and quite interesting book written by a Methodist missionary who lived for twenty-four years in a Muslim town in India, this book takes on topics often missed in other Christian attempts to explain Islam. Includes a substantial section on Islamic Law.

This excellent and inexpensive booklet brings together key passages on peacemaking from the Bible, the Qur’an, sayings attributed authoritatively to the Prophet Muhammad, and a selection of major Christian thinkers. In addition, each editor has contributed an essay on the necessity for each tradition to deal with its “hard sayings”—those which make it possible to endorse violence.

Written by a former missionary to Algeria, this introduction to the basics of Islam is organized around dialogical concerns. Inexpensive, well-written, highly respected.